Appels à contribution

In the past two decades, many societies in Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe have experienced an increase in the writing, publication, and scholarly analysis of autobiographical works by women. But these works have not been available to a broad international audience. Volume 7 of Aspasia will focus on the autobiographical writings of women in CESEE, including their diaries, memoirs and correspondence. We seek original research based on such sources, analyzed in the context of the social…

Projet proposé par Nathalie Grande et Claudine Nédelec L’intitulé de ce projet est emprunté à un ouvrage de Vaumorière, Histoire de la galanterie des Anciens (Paris, 1671), où l’auteur raconte sous forme romancée les amours des personnages illustres de l’Antiquité à l’époque de Trajan. Mais bien avant Vaumorière, et bien après lui, de nombreux ouvrages, en divers genres, ont cherché à « et souvent été accusés de ?? peindre Caton galant et Brutus dameret » (Boileau, Art poétique, chant III, v…

Sous la direction de Lucie Joubert. Revue GREMF. Présentes désormais dans presque toutes les sphères de la société, les femmes demeurent encore sous-représentées dans les spectacles, les galas et les festivals d’humour. Pourtant, elles ont été et sont toujours nombreuses à jouer avec les mots, à manifester de l’esprit, à faire rire : on ne le soupçonne guère parce qu’elles empruntent des voies qui passent rarement par les feux de la rampe ou par les scènes officielles. Elles travaillent en mar…

The 58th Annual Society for French Historical Studies conference will be held at the Omni Hotel in downtown Los Angeles, California from Thursday, March 22, through Saturday, March 24, 2012 and will be hosted by the University of Southern California. The theme for this conference will be « Media and French History. » Featured speakers include film director, producer, screenwriter, and installation artist, Agnès Varda (definitive confirmation pending); Emannuelle Loyer (Sciences Po), Antoine d…

The work of women circulated through many spaces within the international community of letters: salons, letters, newsletters, poetry, plays, memoirs, novels. Compilations of women were another such space. Their contents offer rich narratives of the transnational circulation of women, and of textual production, reception, and classification. In the centuries after Boccaccio?s Famous Women (1361-75), biographical compilations about women spread across Europe, first as manuscripts, then as books…

Women in French (WIF) is pleased to invite electronic paper proposals, in French or English, related to the 2012 conference theme showcasing the influence, representation, presence, and achievement of French and Francophone Women from the Middle Ages through the 21st century. There are two different deadlines. Paper proposals for any of the 19 special panels should be e-mailed directly to the special panel chairs by August 15, 2011. If your paper proposal for a special panel is not accepted…